Have you been able to think out and manage your own life? You have done the greatest task of all.... All other things, ruling, hoa...rding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances... to think out what they really had to face instead of chopping logic in a university classroom.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

A plane is a bad place for an all-out sleep, but a good place to begin rest and recovery from the trip to the faraway places you'v...e been, a decompression chamber between Here and There. Though a plane is not the ideal place really to think, to reassess or reevaluate things, it is a great place to have the illusion of doing so, and often the illusion will suffice.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Paris is the city in which one loves to live. Sometimes I think this is because it is the only city in the world where you can ste...p out of a railway station--the Gare D'Orsay--and see, simultaneously, the chief enchantments: the Seine with its bridges and bookstalls, the Louvre, Notre Dame, the Tuileries Gardens, the Place de la Concorde, the beginning of the Champs Elysees--nearly everything except the Luxembourg Gardens and the Palais Royal. But what other city offers as much as you leave a train?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Parenthood has really changed for me. It's much more than taking care of my son; more than saying yes and no. Now I have to figure... out what I think and what I know so that I can answer his questions and explain things to him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

... women of the North, I ask you to rise up with earnest, honest purpose, and go forward in the way of right, fearlessly, as inde...pendent human beings, responsible to God alone for the discharge of every duty, for the faithful use of every gift, the good Father has given you. Forget conventionalisms; forget what the world will say, whether you are in your place or out of your place; think your best thoughts, speak your best words, do your best works, looking to your own conscience for approval.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has "never had a chance, ...poor devil," you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

We cannot discuss the state of our minorities until we first have some sense of what we are, who we are, what our goals are, and w...hat we take life to be. The question is not what we can do now for the hypothetical Mexican, the hypothetical Negro. The question is what we really want out of life, for ourselves, what we think is real.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

I don't want to be an alarmist, but I think that the Younger Generation is up to something.... I base my apprehension on nothing m...ore definite than the fact that they are always coming in and going out of the house, without any apparent reason.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »